Nusch Eluard & Rainer Maria Rilke

Dora Maar, 1935

 

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses

 who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. 

Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, 

something helpless that wants our love.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Federica de Ruvo & Pablo Neruda

Venus, photo by Federica de Ruvo, 2010



I love you
as
certain dark things
are to be loved,
in secret,
between the shadow
and the soul.

Pablo Neruda
100 Love Sonnets

Thanks to Federica de Ruvo. 

For more informations:

http://cargocollective.com/federicaderuvo/

Jim Long & Bertolt Brecht

Photo by Jim Long, Courtesy Wessel + O'Connor Fine Art, NY

War is like love: it always finds a way.

Bertolt Brecht 

Please, if you recognize the photo and the artist' name write me. I couldn't find it.
Thank you! Beatrice
Thanks to Jim Long, the artist, that wrote me! The photo was published in the catalogue for the exhibition at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, DAS BILD DES KORPERS.

Ken Probst & P. Chesterfield

Photo by Ken Probst "Tattooed twins", San Diego, 1989




Vice,
 in its true light is so deformed
that it shocks us at first sight;
and would hardly ever seduce us,
if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

Philip Chesterfield 

Nobuyoshi Araki & The Erotic

Photo by Nobuyoshi Araki (Japanese Erotic Photographer)



Always without desire we must be found,
if its deep mystery we would sound
but if desire always within us be,
its outer fringe is all that we shall see.

Tao Te Ching